This paper presents an alternative visual web-enabled interpretation
of the short-based graphical sequential narration titled Thesis Defense (THE). It is hypothesized that use
of this secondary interface
suffused with third-person linguistic usage and academic spatial
distribution will provide improvement in perceived acumen generated
from stochastic interactions with supervisory archtypes found in
learning environments. Results show that persistent exposure to
phdcomics dot com (PDC) is mildly correlated to jocular deportment,
which suggests improvements in temporal-delay behavior of bounded
activity.

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"Piled Higher and Deeper" (PhD) is the comic strip about life
(or the lack thereof) in academia. "Piled Higher and Deeper" the
comic strip has appeared in The Stanford Daily for the past nine
years, and in the MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and Caltech
newspapers among others. The strip has appeared or been featured
in the journal Nature, the Chronicle of Higher Education, IEEE
Potentials magazine, Math Horizons magazine, Stanford Magazine
and Canada's The Peer Review magazine among others, and has been
linked to by USA Today's and The Washington Posts websites. Three
collections of the strips have been published: "Piled Higher and
Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection" (